You boys missed a good time! We did two great days of riding with only a couple drops of rain Saturday on the way back to the room. It rained overnight which was nice cause it knocked down the dust. It was not nearly as busy as I was lead to believe it would be for a holiday weekend. Hope you all had a good time sitting at the house....

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Unrelated... anyone have any campground recommendations east of Columbus? A group of us (roughly 10) will be doing a 'hell run' by Buckeye Lake September 29th, and we're hoping to tent camp that night. The only close campground we found is a KOA, which is generally to strict/family-friendly for our rowdy group.

Anywhere between Columbus, Newark, Zanesville, and Lancaster would do.

The Road Rat and I toured part of the Mohawk Valley today. Dust was down, no road graders out. Had to get off and lower the tire pressures. Were able to connect 70 miles of just gravel - 10 miles or less pavement - that including 2 from the parking lot and 3 miles back to the lot. Didn't have time to get NE of Warsaw towards Killbuck - I'm sure we could have come up with an easy 100 miles of good gravel. Not bad for a such a little quadrant (only if you like to blast the back roads - it's an aquired taste of wanna-be flat trackers). If you don't enjoy that type of riding I would stay away for sure!

That's a real lighthouse - hand built by one. The old gent loves to talk about it and will allow you to tour it to the top. It's about 5 miles north of Warsaw - just keep riding around till you find it.

BTW - thanks Larry - had a good ride. We keep doing it till we get it right!
(get that foot peg welded . . . )

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Unrelated... anyone have any campground recommendations east of Columbus? A group of us (roughly 10) will be doing a 'hell run' by Buckeye Lake September 29th, and we're hoping to tent camp that night. The only close campground we found is a KOA, which is generally to strict/family-friendly for our rowdy group.

Anywhere between Columbus, Newark, Zanesville, and Lancaster would do.

Might as well milk the vast wealth of knowdedge here for this as well....

Looking for dual-sport road suggestions around the smokey mountains... I know Z@ck and GCMK were there not too long ago, and that stirred up some conversation. Going with the same crazy folks I went to WV with a month or so ago... so we'll be on big bikes, riding them like they are little bikes:

I've got the most obvious Parsons Branch Rd, then a recommended loop just west of the gap involving Citico Creek and Doublecamp Creek. Any other suggestions, perhaps of roads a bit more challenging than your average gravel road?